CVE-2012-4545: Elinks

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The http_negotiate_create_context function in protocol/http/http_negotiate.c in ELinks 0.12 before 0.12pre6, when using HTTP Negotiate or GSS-Negotiate authentication, delegates user credentials through GSSAPI, which allows remote servers to authenticate as the client via the delegated credentials.

Affected products

• Elinks Elinks: version 0.12 only

Published 2013-01-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.